The Promise of Nuclear Fusion

Phillip Kite, Alexander Richardson
2015 PAM Review Energy Science & Technology  
This paper is a meta-study exploring the progression of nuclear fusion technology from a thermodynamic perspective. Thermodynamic parameters such as power, temperature, volume, efficiency and the fusion triple product (nTτ) were analysed in order to investigate the progress that has been achieved and the challenges that lay ahead. Nuclear fusion reactor designs, confinement systems, advantages and disadvantages are discussed herein. The findings conclude that there has been significant progress
more » ... made in nuclear fusion research and development, to the point of being merely one order of magnitude away from commercial reactor conditions. It was also concluded that there is very little correlation between reactor volume and the current bench mark of fusion reactor performance, the fusion triple product.
doi:10.5130/pamr.v1i0.1385 fatcat:cd5tpafdfvajrdzi6asqpcwz5e